In Argentina, an incoming lawmaker is set to make history when she takes office next week. Twenty-eight-year-old Victoria Donda will join Congress as the first member born to political prisoners during Argentina’s so-called dirty war. Donda’s parents were disappeared shortly after her birth in Argentina’s most infamous torture center, ESMA. They had been arrested for their involvement in leftist political groups. Donda only discovered her past four years ago, with the help of the victims’ rights group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

Victoria Donda: “For me, more than feeling pride, I feel a big responsibility in representing the Grandmothers. Being a recovered granddaughter is being the living result of the struggles of the Grandmothers. On December 5, I’m going to assume office with my father and mother present, but also with a bunch of elderly women waiting for me to do the right thing.”

Donda was speaking right outside the ESMA prison, where she was born. She is one of an estimated 400 people born to women political prisoners in Argentina.